Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-27
An Art Evolved From Dress Germs,
Requiring Favorable Surroundings
5ifor Successful Developing.
GDWing Color in Gown and Hat for
Salon and for Coach, Costume for
MatrOn, Dancing Dress for Maiden.
The Kitchen PhilosophicalIy and SanitariIy
Property Prepared-Notes, Etc.

/ Roman or creek malQenS fingered over
counter asking in soft tones the price o
silks brought from Damascus, of pearls
! from oriental Sc as, or Of perfumes from
Persia. Certain il is her pretty heaC
never worried over q Partisan bonnie
suitable to wear when she went to wit
ness the Olympic games. The Roman
| youth was not, however, deprived of he
witching Chances, for msidens are maid
ems, and Cupid teaches his prsnks il
amphltheatre and in the marts of trade
Not being lost or forgotten, shopping
must be 8 comparatively unknown art
and needs the developing hand of modern
! Improvement to bring it TO perfection.
Few women appreciate the utter want
Of knowledge they betray when out upon
shopping expedition. In the rstplaCe,
they do not seem to know
what they came to purchase, how much
is requisite, nor the price they are willing
to pay, but consume precious time in idle
speculation, and waste oh fesrfuIly. the
scant modicum of patience the average
clerk possesses.
Two women saunter into dry goods
store, seat themselves in front of the
counter where stands all day the waiting
salesman: he listens TO their discussion,
answers there queries, and patiently
changes their orders, passes his opinion
on match of colors, is told he is mis-
taken, and these women pass out while
others file in to 90 through the same
routine. Occasionally g bright, brisk
little woman comes with business IN her
step, the wearied clerk brighteGs, he
knows her methods, and hopes he may
have the good luck to wait upon her. In
Clear, distinct tones with no delay she
says "please show me some Atwood
goods in tan color, this will do, / will
take - yards, now | will look ct Innings.
Stepping to the lower counter she
selects without hestitanCy the number
of yards needed, having settled by her
own mathematics what difference in
number of yards the difference of width
VIII require. Follow her to the trimming
counter; the same quiCkness marks her
dealing, no unnecessary question, time to
her means something valuable, and she
neither wastes her own, the clerks or
that of the waiting customer. In a half
hour she has done what many women
would require two mornings TO accom-
several friends and neighbors. word
TO the young lady shopper, who by her
manner and conversation gives no hint of
business, but leans over the counter eX-
erCising, IN public view and for public
criticism, the harmless arts of cOquetry
which should be reserved for the parlOr:
Do not think because the young fellow
smiles across and sends back the sought
hot h. -. %
as totally happy as his manner seems; he
knows the eye OF his employer is on him;
he knows, too, of the half concealed i'm
patience of lady who comes to
buy, and in his heart of
hearts he wishes the Chatty girl
safe out, much preferrlng to choose the
time and place where social chat and
pretty nothlngs may be more properly in
dulged.
As the shopping goes on there is no
place where more of q Woman'S nature
can be effectively studied than IN the mil
liners store; there she dallies and delays,
turns from mirror TO mirror until the
tired woman in waiting from sheer
fatigue assents to any kind of combina-
ton that the unframed fancy of the
buyer may suggest. Wiser is the little
woman who comes IN early, says to the
milliner; "You see the style of my face
and person, please use your judgment in
selecting what will be becoming, and
will call again when the bonnet. is done
and see the effect" With some express
sion of choice in color and the price she
feels able to pay, she leaves the milliner
to the exercise of her talent, which has
been cultivated for the business. The
result will in the main be satisfactory,
and the milliner will at least feel more
the responsibility of the choice.
To be a woman is to love dress, and
whether she be student or artist, an as
semblage of well-dressed women opens
q kaleidoscope view which charms by
the gay intermingliDg of color and the
varied forms OF beauty which pass before
the vision. The blending in masses of
art shades in color is constant surprise
and no genuine lover of the beautiful de-
sires fixed laws in the realm of fashion. |
This season brides favor the Grecian
models, but the fashions in general are
of the Italian school, and that always
means color. Red of every sha6e, red
absolute and red modified, and the indi- |
cations are that even at 10l Fahrenheit, |
red will abate none of it's fierceness. En-
tire gowns.of red tulIe, of surah and Of
cashmere are spoken of in fashion Jour-
nails, and the color extends to fans, para
soils, hats and gloves, so in tor
rid temperature, torrid shades abound,
and that taste which seeks
cool neutral tipts is questioned by the
strict follower of fashions edicts. Black,
however, will not yield the sway it has so
long held, and is sometimes used in COM
bination with scarlet. A modiste recently
exhibited an effective dress in blackssurah
cut princess and without train. Coming
from under the arms were two scarfs of
cardinal silk which were drawn about the
figure and knotteG directly over theheart,
the ends falling free and terminating in
garnet spikes. Small sashes were scanned
in the shoulder and made little sailor
knots that ornamented the sleeves. Some
liuhten the effect of an entirely black
dress by open fronts wi plastron. This
fashion in all dresses has created demand
fer vests, fuckers, chemlsettes, guimpes
snd OId-faShioned stomacherS OF every
sort. Among the elegsncies in this line
sre exhibited guimpes of black chantilly
and ihread-patterned lace with alternat-
ing strips Of bead-wrought tulle, costly
and beautiful plastrons and gilets, reach
ing the entire front Of the bodice, made
of soft Victoria silk handsomely embroid-
cred in shaded silk, the tiny buds and
leaves outlined with small Roman and
pink beads. Then come dressy fancies N
lace and embroidery, and exceedingly
dainty Russian chemisettes in exquisite
French needlework wrought on sheer In
dia muslin. For morning wear are plain
fuckers of fine white linen or percale, in